Example sentences of "[be] [art] child [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're so determined , they almost make you feel as though you are a child again . ’ |
| 2 | She would n't be a child anymore , would n't . |
| 3 | They were playing like children , and she could be a child too and play with them and the garden would mother her — a stern and demanding mother , but with moments of perfect attentiveness . |
| 4 | You ca n't be a child forever . |
| 5 | If you were a child again , would you like to be a pupil at this school ? |
| 6 | Ruth felt small and insecure , as if she were a child again . |
| 7 | Being cared for in a hospital was like being a child again . |
| 8 | to be taken in hand and led , like being a child again , even without the innocence , a child — It 's like being given a prize , an extra slice of childhood when you least expect it , as a prize for being good , or compensation for never having had one … |
| 9 | Like being a child again , she thought , not understanding the long words , the adult jokes . |
| 10 | It was like being a child again , but a secure one rather than someone like her who 'd never been encouraged to cry out her troubles and fears . |
| 11 | Are early experiences of special significance just because they are early , and is the child more malleable at that time ? |
| 12 | In other words , is the is the child more able simply to observe and draw conclusions based on that . |
| 13 | As the individual WFS country data show , in some populations , mainly on the Indian sub-continent , where women marry and have their first child at an early age , the first born is the child least likely to survive infancy and early childhood . |
| 14 | It 's a child really is n't it ? |
| 15 | Cameron was a child again , the hell of life before him . |
| 16 | He was a child again , wanting everything to be sorted out by an adult . |
| 17 | She had never been very obedient in other areas of her life but in the tube she was a child again , learning , wary , and without that presence which had always been there in her childhood . |
| 18 | Nenna was a child again . |
| 19 | I was a child again , and Casey turned away . |
| 20 | Somewhere close , somewhere — yes ! just minutes away ! — somewhere she was a child again , and Gaunt was pottering , and her father was getting angry with her antics … |
| 21 | However , once upon a time the mathematician was a child too . |
| 22 | ‘ There was a child too , was n't there ? ’ said the other . |
| 23 | ‘ The last thing my mother wanted was a child underfoot while she was dealing with a baby . |
| 24 | Erm keeps giving little bits erm It was when he was a child apparently , he claims to have been aware of it , you know ? |
| 25 | Said he was a child then , did he ? |